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If you buy a pet dog or cat, it’s important that you make checks to help combat the illegal trade in pet animals.
How to import or move animal by-products from the EU to Great Britain.
Use this certificate to bring your pet dog, cat or ferret, or assistance dog, to Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland).
Guidance for EU exporters, exporters from the rest of the world and UK importers, on how to import groupage or mixed load consignments of animal products into Great Britain.
Import risk categories under the Border Target Operating Model (BTOM) for animals or animal products you’re importing from the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, the Faroe Islands and Greenland to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), and the import rules...
How to apply for a licence to import, release or keep non-native animals.
How to get approval to transport pet cats, dogs and ferrets, and when you must transport assistance dogs with their owners.
Check if you'll need an import licence and what import duty you'll need to pay when importing certain agricultural goods and food from outside the UK.
Rules to follow if you’re moving animals or animal products from one country to another and transiting through Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), known as ‘landbridge’ movements.
Find out how to export live fish, molluscs and crustaceans for farming, ornamental, or any other purpose except direct human consumption
Find out about the licences you need and rules you must follow to import Specified Animal Pathogens into England, Scotland and Wales.
Apply for premises approval to move animals covered by the Balai Directive.
Competent authorities of exporting countries should use the relevant model health certificate as a template to create a version exporters can apply for to export pets to Great Britain, the Channel Islands or Isle of Man
Bring your pet to Great Britain - microchipping, pet passports, vaccinations
Forms to apply for a licence to operate as a quarantine premises for dogs and cats.
How to apply to import, export or re-export endangered animal and plant species on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) list.
What cattle keepers must do when they import or move cattle into England or Wales, including passport and ear tagging rules.
How to import or move food and drink from the EU to Great Britain.
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